English tasks classes 7abc Zeitraum: 4.5 – 8.5

1. Unit II – Country life

Simple Past revision. If you need help or if you have forgotten what the simple

past was, read pages 182-184 in your text book. (Habt ihr alles schon mal

gemacht ist nur eine Wiederholung. Hier könnt ihr die Kurzfassung lesen.)

The simple past

+ positive sentences

• Bei regelmäßigen Verben wird –ed angehängt: laughed, looked, asked…

Tom laughed about his joke.

• Bei unregelmäßigen Verben, wird die 2. Form aus der Liste im Buch (S. 268-269) verwendet: met, went, did, ate, kept…

The girls went to school.

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negative sentences

• Der Satz wird durch didn´t + infinitive (Grundform) verneint. Es ist egal, ob das Verb regelmäßig oder unregelmäßig ist.

Tom didn´t laugh about his joke.

The girls didn´t go to school.

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questions

• Fragen werden durch did + infinitive (Grundform) gebildet. Es ist egal, ob das Verb regelmäßig oder unregelmäßig ist.

Did Tom laugh about his joke?

Did the girls go to school?

Rewrite the sentences in the simple past!

Tom likes ice-cream.

+ Tom liked ice-cream

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Ella and Ben have a good time together.

+

- Bella and Ben didn’t have a good time together.

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My friend looks for a new car.

+

-

? Did my friend look for a new car?

John writes a letter to his new girlfriend.

+

-

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Fill the gaps and use the simple past! You can find the irregular words on pages

268-269 in your textbook)

1. The children ________fed________ Mrs Carter’s cat. ( feed )

2. Tom and Linda _______________ all their money. ( keep )

3. Mr and Mrs Scott ______________ to London yesterday. ( not go )

4. Peter ______________ a hamburger for lunch. ( have )

5. John ________________ in the school team last year. ( not play )

6. Last summer Mrs Smith ___________________ English at our school.

( teach )

7. Jeff ________________ a nice picture for his mum. ( draw )

8. The girl’s grandma ____________________ the trip to Paris. ( pay for )

9. The teacher __________________ us nice ghost stories. ( tell )

10. The weather ________________ fine yesterday. ( not be )

11. Paul ____________________ his sister in America last winter. ( visit )

12. The customers ____________________ interested in the special offers.

( not be )

13. Linda ______________________ a lot of clothes but she

__________________________ to buy anything. ( try on / not want )

14. John ________________________ his homework for today. ( not do )

16. Peter _____________________ his new book within two days. ( read )

Text writing:

You are Rob and after the first year living in the Cotswolds you want to write a letter to one of your

friends in London about what you have experienced living there. You have to use the simple past in

your text if you write about the things that happened in the past.

information: letter (ca. 150 words or longer if you want to)

help:

- You can start like this:

Hey Alfie,

I have lived here for a whole year now and it was really interesting.

- use adjectives, linking words and adverbs

- use your textbook and your workbook to find information about was has happened in Unit 2

- remember the correct word order

(Please send a copy of your letters to my mail account and I will take a look at it)

vocabulary (Langfristige Aufgabe, ihr müsst nicht (!) bis Freitag die ganzen

Wörter können, sondern bis zum 15.5):

It is time to learn some “new” words. Some of them are not really new, but I

have 3 lists for you and on the lists you find some of the most important words

in English.

For more words look at:

Link: https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-vocabulary/

help: www.dict.cc (Hier könnt ihr die Aussprache der einzelnen Wörter euch anhören.)

50 important adjectives in English

able – in der Lage sein etwas zu tun

bad - schlecht

best – beste

better - besser

big - groß

black - schwarz

certain - sicher

clear – klar/offensichtlich

different – verchieden/anders/unterschiedlich

early - früh

easy - einfach

economic - wirtschaftlich

federal – staatlich

free – frei/kostenlos

full - voll

good - gut

great - großartig

hard – hart/schwer (The English test was hard)

high – hoch

human – menschlich

important – wichtig

international – international

large – groß/weit

late – spat

little – klein

local – local/örtlich

long – lang

low – niedrig

major – hauptsächlich/bedeutend

military - militärisch

national – national

new – neu

old – alt

only – nur/einzig (She is the only teacher in town.)

other - andere

political – politisch

possible – möglich

public – öffentlich

real – real

recent – kürzlich

right – richtig

small – klein

social – sozial

special – spezial

strong – stark

sure – sicher

true – wahr/echt

white – wheiß

whole - ganz

young – jung

50 important verbs in English

ask – fragen

be – sein

become – werden (!!!) I wanted to become a teacher all my life.

begin – beginnen/anfangen

call – anrufen

can – können

come – kommen

could - könnte

do – machen

drive - fahren

feel – fühlen

find – finden

get - bekommen

give - geben

go - gehen

have – haben/besitzen

hear - hören

help – helfen

hunt – jagen

keep - behalten

know - wissen

leave - verlassen

let – lassen/vermieten

like – mögen

live – leben

look – schauen

make – machen

may - dürfen

mean – meinen/bedeuten

move - begewegen

need – benötigen

play -spielen

ride – reiten/fahren He rides his bike to school.

paint – malen/anmalen

put – legen/stellen setzen

run – laufen/rennen

say – sagen

see – sehen

seem – scheinen/erscheinen Dortmund seems to be the best club in Germany.

show – zeigen

start – beginnen/starten/anfangen

take – nehmen

talk – reden

tell – erzählen

think – denken

try – versuchen

turn – (sich) (um-)drehen/wenden

use – nutzen/benutzen

want – (haben) wollen

work - arbeiten

50 important nouns in English

area – Bereich/Gebiet/Fläche

book - Buch

business – Unternehmen/Betrieb

case – Fall (Angelegenheit)/ Behälter

child – Kind

company – Firma

country – Land

day - Tag

eye – Auge

fact – Fakt/Tatsache

family – Familie

government – Regierung

group - Gruppe

hand – Hand

home – Zuhause

job – Beruf

life – Leben

lot – Schicksal oder Baugrundstück

man - Mann

money - Geld

month – Monat

mother - Mutter

Mr – Herr

night - Nacht

number – Nummer

part – Teil (von etwas)

people – Menschen (Achtung das Wort ist sowohl Singular als auch Plural!)

place – Ort

point – Punkt

problem – Problem

program – Programm

question – Frage

right – Recht (auf etwas) → right to education “Das Recht auf Bildung”

room – Raum

school – Schule

state – Staat

story – Eine Geschichte

student – Student/Schüler

study – Untesuchung/Studium

system – System

thing – Ding

time - Zeit

water – Wasser

way – weg

week – Woche

woman - Frau

word – Wort

work – Arbeit

world -Welt

year – Jahr